Let Game Birds End Farm Depression thing if that extra 300 million HATE WASTE. Economic profligacy to me is not only deplorable but detestable. It is a crime against life. We Americans are incredibly, fantastically, wasteful of Nature’s bounty. For a hundred years we have been throwing her gifts away Somebody has to do something. So we started the Foundation, ‘““More Game Birds in America.” Its one and only purpose can be found in its title. The task to which this Foun‘dation has set itself 1s to create a new crop for the American farmer; to provide him with another source of income, sure, lucrative and demanding from him little increase in labor. This new crop should put at least 300 million dollars in his pocket: every’ year. «That ‘extra money would pay off several farm mortgages, wouldn’t it? It would go a long way toward cheering up country bankers who have invested in these mortgages. It would be just that much added to the spending, purchasing power of the coun- try. It would be a mighty good suggests, this new crop is game birds—our ffine American game old native birds, wild duck and _ geese, bob-white quail, partridges and wild tur- with both hands. We have had a grand spree. The headache is about due. In fact, there have been more than a few twinges. Others have said all this to a careless and indifferent public. Talk gets nowhere, however well meant. dollars were going into the markets right now. As the Foundation’s name keys. These are all but wiped out now, due to our almost un- believable stupidity and HORYDZCAK, WASHINGTON Predatory birds such as the horned owl are obstacles to game preservation By JOSEPH P. KNAPP Chairman Executive Committee, Crowell Publishing Company * by the State Ornithologist fields, suggests here a plan which, he says, would mean 300 million dollars a year in new business for this country. Not only that. It would mean a fine, new food supply, some excellent sport and preserHe has already vation of game birds. moved to put the plan in operation of Massachusetts, Edward Howe Forbush, is to commercialize them. Make them mean something to most people, or to a lot of people, in the way of money. Then they get interested. MR. KNAPP, a business man with wide experience in the publishing and insurance reck- lessness, but they can be saved and vastly increased by proper methods of propagation. The only way to make game birds abundant, as is well said Fewer birds EARLY in the nineteenth century the United States had a greater variety and number of wild food birds than any other country. In the past 50 years this great once has considered inexhaustible, decreased tremendously. natural resource, Ornithologists and sportsmen deplore the rapid, steady disappearance of a wonderful food supply and a marvelous nat- ural crop. They have predicted the absolute extermination of 60 ¥